The Ultimate ADHD Guide to Time Management

Ryan McRae
The ADHD NERD
Published in
18 min readJan 7, 2016

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TL;DR — Watch the videos about time management.

I remember having to check a bag when I was flying to back to Chicago. I normally don’t check bags, but I stood obediently in line and just as I got to the front, I heard the yelling.

A young woman was told that her two suitcases were too heavy to fly. From the shouting I figured out that even if she moved stuff from one bag to the other, they would be too heavy to fly. She’d have to pay the expensive fee to fly with the over weight bags or get rid of things that weren’t important.

“But it’s all important. All of it! I guess I’ll pay.”

Someone tapped my shoulder and pointed to the next available attendant.

I said, “Man, that’s rough with having bags that are too full.”

The attendant didn’t blink and said, “It happens every day.”

A lot of us feel that what we carry, what we have to do every day is all important and eventually, we have to pay. And we don’t know how to manage our time better; we don’t know how to make everything fit or even determine if it belongs. So we just keep carrying it all.

And we just keep paying.

This post (a long one, friends) is designed to walk you through time management principles that work for…

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Ryan McRae
The ADHD NERD

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